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There was a moment very late in the game he beat a man with a body feint & then played a 30 yard outside of the boot diag to Kelly (I think). The type of move you only see players like Iniesta, Modric, Kroos, Verratti etc do.

Only the top level players can pull that off. I say we offer Chelsea £20-25m for him before it's too late. He has a great chance of making the England World Cup squad come the end of the season which would only inflate his price.

He was very good today. MoM for us comfortably. Put in a shift, is good with the ball at his feet, can pick out a pass and likes the physical side of the game. If we play this formation we do need a central midfielder to break and push forward and I can see him making this role his own. I would like to see him with Luka, and I suspect that will be the plan once we sign another CB.

There was a moment very late in the game he beat a man with a body feint & then played a 30 yard outside of the boot diag to Kelly (I think). The type of move you only see players like Iniesta, Modric, Kroos, Verratti etc do.

Only the top level players can pull that off. I say we offer Chelsea £20-25m for him before it's too late. He has a great chance of making the England World Cup squad come the end of the season which would only inflate his price.

Kelly didn't play.

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MOTM for me , I was very impressed with him . Pva , Dann , Jairo all had good games but I felt we looked suspect to midfielders making good runs to get in behind us . Ruban could be a key player for us this season

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It's **** all to do with him.
It's the January signings making the difference.

There was a moment very late in the game he beat a man with a body feint & then played a 30 yard outside of the boot diag to Kelly (I think). The type of move you only see players like Iniesta, Modric, Kroos, Verratti etc do.

Only the top level players can pull that off. I say we offer Chelsea £20-25m for him before it's too late. He has a great chance of making the England World Cup squad come the end of the season which would only inflate his price.

Would love that too but we all know Chelsea love their loan business venture too much.

It's been glaringly obvious though for a while. He's had it as a force in the Prem. I am sure he's a positive influence but he's no longer in the starting 11 for me so it made for an odd decision to give him the armband.

Agree. Love the bloke for his passion, but consistently hasn't performend on the pitch for 18 months now. Also think a lot of this 'one of our own' 'local boy' schtick is very over-blown. It's great to have local lads in the side, but only if their form merits it. I think he'd be a good squad member, but not a regular starter. If we continue to play Luka out of position to accommodate him then not only will be weakening our defence (luka is not a CB imho) but our midfield also.